Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of…

To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle…

— Shulamith Firestone

“In the words of John Fonte, “The new, transformed civic morality of the progressive narrative . . . divides Americans between dominant or ‘oppressor’ groups—whites, males, native-born,…

— David Horowitz

“Naming oppressive realities, in and of itself, has not brought about the kinds of changes for oppressed groups that it can for more privileged…

— bell hooks

What whites have rarely had to think about—because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little…

— Tim Wise

“Being in the dominant group, where the culture matches our culture, tends to lead to not only advantage, but also conscious laziness.”

— Sara Taylor

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely…

— Jean Baker Miller

In a sense, whites who were always sort of the unthinking majority who didn't think of themselves necessarily as one among many interest groups…

— George Packer

“By taking away women’s primordial right to sustain their own children with their own milk, through the destruction of traditional knowledge and the reorganisation…

— Gabrielle Palmer

I'm sure straight men feel all kinds of things about it, but in general, I feel like because they have always been the most…

— Celine Song

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man…

— Bertrand Russell

“One of the most effective ways in which dominant groups maintain their power is by depriving the people they dominate of the knowledge of…

— Jane Sherron De Hart

“Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate’s nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For…

— Anonymous

“The sexually insatiable woman,” declared a terrified Donald Symons, “is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes…

— Christopher Ryan